Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-03-18
THE SALOONS MUST GO.
The Drink Curse a Stain ON the Stars
and Stripes.

IHE SALUUNO MOO1 VVs
The Drink Curse a Stain ON the stars
! and Stripes.
The usual gospel temperance service was
held last night in the Metropolitan Thea
ter, under the auspices of the Pastors
I Union of this city. There was the same
throng of people before the opening OF the
doors, and the same crowded audience OF
representative people, largely men; and
this, despite the fact that the churches OF
the city held their usual weekly prayer
meetings in their own churches; but there
was no apparent difference IN the attend
ance on the service.
Rev. Mr.. Filben presided, and read the
first Psalm. Wad-El- Ward, who recently
| lectured in this city on the Holy Land, made
the opening prayer. After several songs
by the choir. Wad-El- Ward was intro
duced tc the audience. He said he had
been well treated by the people OF Sacra-
mento, and was glad to appear before them
again and under such promising auspices
to give his support to such magnificent
movement as the present He congratu-
lated the city on what his eyes saw. he
was glad that it was possible for move
ment of this purely moral character 10 as
sumo such proportions IN so short time.
For himself, he would never taste liquor,
either incidentally or for pleasure. As to
using it for medicine, though at deaths
door ne had refused it, preferring to die in
his senses. He said he was physician,
but he never prescribed 1.-THE found
abundant substitutes. He said he would
as leave take damnation as liquor, Tor
Tror-op &c D.MNaTION
He referred to the drink curse as a stain on
the stars and stripes, the shame OF Amer
lea, and appealed to his hearers to do ali
that was in their power to remove it and its
balefnl effects from among US.
The choir then rendered finely, as
quartet, " Is it Well with Ny Soul?" The
announcement of a lecture on War Rem
iniscences or, My Three Years in the
Ranks, on Saturday night was made, and
in connection with it, it was stated that the
delivery of this lecture was in accord with
the arrangement with the Pastors Union
before Mr.. Booths coming, Mr.. Booths
only claim for compensation being the
privilege of the delivery of this special
lecture. He would receive no compensa-
ton but the receipts from these lectures, all
the money received from collections and
sale of reserved seats being applied to the
current expenses of the mission-a plan
insuring the meeting of all bills, and re-
lieying the movement of the embarrass-
ment of the special collections and sub
scriptions so common and so annoying in
such cases.
The lecturer announced the subject of
the evening to be,
NO CALL FOR MEN WHO DRINK"
He said: "There is no place or occu-
IL 8. r.. ;
ers; the world wants men with clear brains
and steady nerves. The employers of this
world want men that are steady and sober
Even the man who owns the saloon and
the man that manufactures the stuff, pre-
fers TO have men about that Keyer touch
it-they prefer barkeepers who are total
abstainers. Young men starting in life do
not always appreciate how true this is.
They look about them at the men of sue
cess and see them too often to be men who
drink, and they think they may do the
same and succeed. But it is not so. The
world has changed in the matter
of public sentiment on drink in 80
or 40 years. The world claims
men clean on this thing to-day.
There are some rights that others are
bound to respect If you need physician
you have right to demand that be be
he may give you every chance there is for
life and health. l know how weak the
medical profession sometimes is at this
point, and how confidence in physicians
leads men astray. have great confidence
in the profession, but l do not obey their
injunction when they would have me
TAKE LITTLE" FOR A ''NIGHT-cAP"
At night, and an "eye-opener' in the morn
7 /, 4 AaGoifior, IF
medicine, as "the science of taking that of
which we know little and putting it into
that of which we know less" If you en-
ploy lawyer to go before judge or jury
with your cause you have a right to expect
him to give you all the chance there is in
your case. The time has come and the
hour has struck when they that go into the
pew expect that those who go into the pull
pit shall go with a clear brain and sweet
breath. The same principle is going into
all lower lines. The managers of railroads
and of manufacturing establishments are
recognizing it. The leading railroad COM
panies are wedding out employees who
drink. Managers who do not themselves
abstain are doing this, not as a matter of
sentiment as of business, recognizing that
the man who buys his ticket for any station
has right to every chance of getting to
his destination in safety. The Cunard and
White Star steamship lines have dispensed
with sailors grog-there is not drop
from shore to shore. There is too,
ANOTHER UTILITARIAN SIDE,
A financial side vastly important. What
have you got to fall back upon? Have You
got something put away for rainy day :?
Or, do you give to the rum-seller what you
ought to be putting away? If. you are
stop it. Why give your money to them to
support them? What equivalent do you
get for the money you earn? l defy you
to find single individual who has been
made a better father or son or brother or
husband or citizen through drink or worse
by total abstinence. Here is the question
in a nutshell.
The lecture was replete with thrilling il
lustrations The speaker closed By de-
scribing wildly and thrillingly the wreck
of the Anchoria, on which he was a pas
senger, by being run down by the Queen.
There will be no lecture tomorrow night.
On Saturday night Mr.. Booth will give his
war lecture, charging an admission fee to
all parts Of the house. On Sunday at 3 P.
NJ, lecture will be given to men only, adj
mission being by ticket, on Social
Purity" and on Sunday night at s, a
grand meeting and address. The meetings
continue next week, at the same place.
Sixty-two pledges were signed and $50 rib
| bons taken in the meeting, many of the
cases being of deep drinkers. The score
now stands as follows:
Sunday - 790 las